Lost SSD

[evilpyrodork]

Hi, new to the whole Linux experience. I had successfully installed Bazzite on my laptop, everything was working great. I have an aftermarket 2TB SSD I put in my computer a while back, and for some reason i decided to try and format it in Bazzite to get rid of the partitions that widows put there. I started the format and went to bed. The next morning i realized the computer went into standby. I restarted the computer and the disk is not recognized at all, it doesn't exist and cannot be found. I started have issues with other drivers (e.g. fans stopped working) so i installed Zorin. I still cannot locate the disk. Is it bricked?

 

[Brickwizard]

I take it Zorin is loaded to a second drive, boot Zorin, open menu and find the disk utility, is the 2TB showing , if so you can mount it and re-format the compleat disc using the tools in the disc management app.
If you have just the 2tb and zorin is installed to that chances are you may have inadvertently installed it to the whole drive and this will have wiped all previous partitions

Is it bricked?

as a usable drive unlikely

 

[osprey]

Hi, new to the whole Linux experience. I had successfully installed Bazzite on my laptop, everything was working great. I have an aftermarket 2TB SSD I put in my computer a while back, and for some reason i decided to try and format it in Bazzite to get rid of the partitions that widows put there. I started the format and went to bed. The next morning i realized the computer went into standby. I restarted the computer and the disk is not recognized at all, it doesn't exist and cannot be found. I started have issues with other drivers (e.g. fans stopped working) so i installed Zorin. I still cannot locate the disk. Is it bricked?

Welcome!
Since the information provided doesn't really give a fully clear view of what's on the machine, it would be useful to run some commands in a terminal to get some information.

The important aspect for readers to be able to help is to know what the linux kernel can see on the machine. If it sees all the drives then they are not lost. They may need to be configured one way or another, but if they are not corrupted then they should be usable.

Since you are new to linux, the following suggestion may be somewhat incomprehensible, but perhaps not.

To get a view of what is on the computer, with all drives attached, one can run the following command in a terminal. You just need to copy it exactly by copy/paste, or meticulous typing with the commas and spaces all in the given positions:

lsblk -o NAME,MAJ:MIN,RM,RO,SIZE,TYPE,FSTYPE,FSVER,LABEL,MOUNTPOINT,MODE,OWNER,GROUP

If you can boot up zorin that is on your machine, you can run the command from a terminal, then copy/paste the output here in this thread.

When pasting the info here, it's best to use code tags as shown in this thread here: https://linux.org/threads/the-code-tag-and-why-it-matters.57746/#post-276419

If you cannot boot into linux on your machine, you can run the command from a booted up live disk such as is used to boot into a live system. The zorin installation isofile on a usb is a live disk as well as an installation disk, so it can be used. One can also use a live disk of any other linux distro, or a rescue disk such a systemrescue.

When the live disk or rescue disk is booted, open a terminal and type in the above command.
Then copy the output here.

Here is what the output looks like on a machine here:

NAME        MAJ:MIN RM RO   SIZE TYPE FSTYPE FSVER LABEL MOUNTPOINT MODE       OWNER GROUP
sda           8:0    1  0  28.7G disk                               brw-rw---- root  disk
└─sda1        8:1    1  0  28.7G part vfat   FAT32                  brw-rw---- root  disk
sr0          11:0    1  0  1024M rom                                brw-rw---- root  cdrom
nvme0n1     259:0    0  0 465.8G disk                               brw-rw---- root  disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1    0  0   476M part vfat   FAT32       /boot/efi  brw-rw---- root  disk
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2    0  0  14.9G part swap   1           [SWAP]     brw-rw---- root  disk
└─nvme0n1p3 259:3    0  0 450.4G part ext4   1.0         /          brw-rw---- root  disk

The output shows all the disk/drives and partitions that the kernel can see, the type of filesystems on each disk and each partition, the disk sizes and some other info.

If using a live disk, to provide the output, since it is involved to copy/paste from that situation, you can take a photo and supply the image here with the whole output. That will be helpful .